After years of being a strictly-procedural framework, Drupal is starting to embrace object-oriented programming in a big way. Views is now mostly object-oriented. The Drupal 7 database layer is entirely object-oriented, with a thin procedural veneer. Unit testing is object-oriented. Various other efforts at media handling, plugins and handlers, and more are leveraging objects.

Of course, Drupal has attracted lots of developers who may not understand object-oriented coding, and how to do it well. This session will act as an introduction to the concepts behind objects, classes, interfaces, and other mainstays of PHP object-oriented development. It will start with the basics of the concept of object-oriented programming and cover the syntax, theory, and "how to not do it wrong".

If your eyes cross when seeing code like this:

$plugin->doSomething()->doSomethingElse($plugin);

then this session is for you.


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

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Keywords: DrupalCon 2010; education; entertainment; library; marketing; media; non-profit; Beginner; Intermediate

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